Bills & Legislation

AN ACT CONCERNING CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS FOR LONG-TERM CARE POLICIES.

To establish consumer safeguards for purchases of long-term care insurance policies.

Human Services Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING DISTRACTED DRIVING AND THE SAFE OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE IN A HIGHWAY WORK ZONE.

To (1) include the playing of a video on a mobile electronic device that is in full view to the person who is operating the vehicle as a form of distracted driving, and (2) specify that distracted driving in a highway work zone is a violation of the state's reckless driving statute.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE TREASURER'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REVISIONS TO THE UNCLAIMED PROPERTY PROGRAM AND SECOND INJURY FUND.

To make various revisions to the unclaimed property program and Second Injury Fund recommended by the Treasurer.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING DUAL ENROLLMENT PROGRAMS.

To require the Department of Education to appoint a dual enrollment coordinator to track state-wide dual enrollment programs and to provide scholarships to students required to pay tuition costs for dual enrollment programs.

Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee

AN ACT AUTHORIZING CERTAIN MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES TO SERVE ON MUNICIPAL BOARDS OF FINANCE.

To authorize municipal employees to serve on municipal boards of finance if such employees receive less than ten thousand dollars in salary or wages annually.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING VARIOUS REQUIREMENTS REGARDING ELEVATORS.

To establish various requirements applicable to owners of residential elevator buildings.

Public Safety and Security Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE HOURLY COMPENSATION FOR ADJUNCT FIRE INSTRUCTORS.

To require the hourly compensation for adjunct fire instructors to be adjusted at the same percentage rate as any general wage increase and cost-of-living adjustment included within the most recently ratified agreement between the state and the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition.

Public Safety and Security Committee

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE STRATEGY RELATED TO HIGHER EDUCATION.

To implement the recommendations of the Office of Workforce Strategy.

Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY OF BREAST CANCER SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR WOMEN COMMITTED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.

To provide additional breast cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment options to women committed to the custody of the Department of Correction.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING PROBATE COURT OPERATIONS.

To make various changes concerning Probate Court administrative processes, court procedures and the training of Probate Court judges and to repeal provisions relating to the establishment of a working group.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT REVISING VARIOUS MOTOR VEHICLE STATUTES, IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND CONCERNING YOUTH INSTRUCTION PERMITS, AUTOMOBILE DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS AND THE TOWING AND STORAGE OF MOTOR VEHICLES.

To revise various motor vehicle statutes regarding removable windshield placards, firefighter driving reciprocity, motor vehicle registration upon the death of the owner of the vehicle, the definition of electric scooter, car rental classifications, electric issuance licensees, the local bridge program and electric bicycles.

Transportation Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING UTILITY CHARGES FOR RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS.

To require that a tenant only be charged for utilities if such tenant's dwelling unit has an individual meter.

Housing Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING CONTINUING REAL ESTATE EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS, PUBLIC MARKETING OF CERTAIN REAL ESTATE LISTINGS AND REVISING THE TITLE OF A REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON TO A REAL ESTATE AGENT.

To: (1) Revise the continuing education requirements for real estate licensees, (2) change the term real estate salesperson to real estate agent, and (3) establish a process regarding the public marketing of certain real estate listings.

Insurance and Real Estate Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING MODIFICATIONS TO THE FIREFIGHTERS CANCER RELIEF FUND.

To amend the reporting requirements of the Treasurer for the Firefighters Cancer Relief Fund.

Labor and Public Employees Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO STATUTES RELATING TO MUNICIPAL PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENT.

To make various revisions to statutes concerning municipal property tax assessment.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COMPTROLLER TO WITHHOLD PAYMENT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE PREVAILING WAGE STATUTES.

To allow the Comptroller to withhold payment of money to a contractor or subcontractor for a violation of subsection (b) of section 31-53 of the general statutes where a stop work order was issued by the Labor Commissioner.

Labor and Public Employees Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES OF THE STATE MARSHAL COMMISSION, THE STATE MARSHALS ADVISORY BOARD AND STATE MARSHALS.

To: (1) Make revisions to the duties and composition of the State Marshals Commission, (2) make revisions to the duties of the State Marshals Advisory Board, (3) ensure timely and reliable access to state marshals for service of a restraining order or a civil protection order, and (4) revise the fees associated with certain removal actions.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING TRADE NAMES, FRAUDULENT FILINGS, IMPERMISSIBLE BUSINESS SOLICITATIONS, DISSOLUTION OF CORPORATIONS, THE ISSUANCE OF AN APOSTILLE AND FEES CHARGED BY A NOTARY.

To: (1) Revise processes related to applications for, and issuance of, trade name certificates, (2) provide the Secretary of the State with additional authority to take actions with respect to fraudulent filings, deceptive business solicitations and the dissolution of corporations that fail to comply with state law, (3) revise provisions relating to the issuance of an apostille, and (4) increase permissible fees that may be charged by a notary.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER PROTECTION WITH RESPECT TO THE CONNECTICUT UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES ACT AND SPORTS WAGERING.

To (1) increase the maximum amount of restitution available under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, (2) make consistent statutory provisions concerning record retention under said act, and (3) update the state's cheating statute to include provisions relating to sports wagering.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE REALLOCATION OF CERTAIN STATE FUNDS AND VARIOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO EDUCATION, PUBLIC SAFETY, GENERAL GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS, INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES AND WAREHOUSE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS.

Martin M. LooneyDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING REDEMPTION OF OUT-OF-STATE BEVERAGE CONTAINERS.

Martin M. LooneyDemocrat

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REVISIONS TO THE COMMERCE STATUTES AND PROHIBITING SCHOLARSHIP DISPLACEMENT FOR CERTAIN STUDENTS AT PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

To implement the Department of Economic and Community Development's recommendations for revisions to the commerce statutes, including (1) removing references to certain Department of Economic and Community Development offices, (2) repealing or modifying certain reporting requirements, (3) repealing defunct programs, (4) addressing changes to federal funding, (5) revising the Manufacturing Innovation Fund Advisory Board membership and establishing a board absentee policy, (6) establishing a council absentee policy for the Tourism Council, (7) revising the name, charge and membership of the Minority Business Initiative Advisory Board and permitting the board to establish bylaws, (8) implementing certain revisions to the concentrated poverty statutes, and (9) rename the Small Business Express program and the small business express assistance account.

Commerce Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE COMMUNITY BANK AND CREDIT UNION INVESTMENT PROGRAM, MORTGAGE PAYMENTS, PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF RENTAL SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIREMENTS, CERTAIN APPROVALS BY THE BANKING COMMISSIONER, CONNECTICUT BRANCH APPLICATIONS AND SECURED CREDIT CARDS.

To require the Department of Banking to study and submit a report concerning banking issues in the state.

Banking Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING STUDENT LITERACY, ASPIRING EDUCATORS, AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AS PART OF THE WORLD LANGUAGES CURRICULUM AND THE PARAEDUCATOR HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN SUBSIDY PROGRAM.

To establish and provide reading instruction and supports to all students in grades four to nine who are below proficient in reading.

Education Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING CONSUMER PROTECTIONS REGARDING RESIDENTIAL SOLAR AND ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS.

To (1) exempt from licensing requirements certain persons (A) employed by, and under the direction of, a licensed solar contractor, and (B) performing certain work on a solar photovoltaic facility, (2) amend the Home Solicitation Sales Act by (A) defining and redefining various terms, (B) requiring the Office of Consumer Counsel to develop a consumer handbook concerning home solicitation sales of residential solar photovoltaic systems, (C) requiring sellers to make additional disclosures, (D) establishing requirements concerning sellers of residential solar photovoltaic systems, and (E) modifying the penalty applicable for violations of said act, and (3) require residential solar lenders and lessors to provide payoff statements and transfer documentation.

General Law Committee

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AUDITORS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

To implement the recommendations of the Auditors of Public Accounts submitted in their most recent annual report, including to require Governor or Attorney General approval for additional agreements with state employees over a certain amount, require agreements with foundations to provide when foundations will reimburse the expenses, salaries and benefits of state employees providing services for the foundation, remove the Comptroller from the Treasurer's audit, remove the State Contracting Standard Board's ability to request the auditors to conduct its audits, modify provisions concerning state agency contracts and agreements for auditing services, add a time frame for quasi-public agency annual reports to the auditors and provide that the annual comprehensive financial review of the Technical Services Revolving Fund is performed as part of the audit of the State Comptroller's annual comprehensive financial report.

Government Oversight Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PSYCHEDELIC-ASSISTED THERAPY PILOT PROGRAM.

To expand access to and extend the psychedelic-assisted therapy pilot program.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR CERTAIN RATE INCREASES AT ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES, MUNICIPAL AGENTS FOR AGING, EMERGENCY POWER GENERATOR REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN MULTIFAMILY HOUSING PROJECTS, PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR HOME HEALTH AIDE EMPLOYEES, THE NURSING HOME BED MORATORIUM AND NURSING HOME RESIDENT DATA.

To require each assisted living services agency to hold a public informational hearing when the agency increases a fee by more than ten per cent of the previous fee.

Aging Committee

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.

To implement the recommendations of the Office of Early Childhood.

Education Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO AQUACULTURE-RELATED STATUTES AND PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN FARMING-RELATED PROGRAMS.

To clarify the notification procedure for designation of shellfish areas that are closed to harvesting due to contamination or pollution.

Environment Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE LEGISLATIVE COMMISSIONERS' RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TECHNICAL REVISIONS TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION STATUTES.

To make technical revisions to the higher education statutes.

Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A NONPROFIT PROVIDER ADVISORY BOARD AND PROHIBITING AUTO INSURANCE PENALTIES ON VOLUNTEER DRIVERS PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.

To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.

REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9

AN ACT REVISING AND CONSOLIDATING THE HATE CRIMES STATUTES.

To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.

REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9

AN ACT CONCERNING VARIOUS REVISIONS TO HUMAN SERVICES STATUTES.

To make technical and other changes to statutes concerning human services.

Human Services Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING VARIOUS CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROPOSALS, CERTIFICATES OF APPROVAL FOR AIRPORTS, HELIPORTS, VERTIPORTS, RESTRICTED LANDING AREAS AND OTHER AIR NAVIGATION FACILITIES, POLICE COLLABORATION WITH SOCIAL WORKERS, SURVEILLANCE PRICING, EDUCATION COST SHARING AND WITHHOLDING OF TAXES FROM LUMP SUM PAYMENTS.

To (1) modify statutory provisions relating to the offenses of organized retail theft and accessory to organized retail theft, (2) establish fostering the sale of stolen property and gift card crime as forms of larceny, (3) modify statutory provisions relating to the civil liability of a person eighteen years of age or older or an emancipated minor who takes possession of certain goods, merchandise or produce without the consent of the owner and with a certain intention, or who alters the price indicia of such goods or merchandise, and (4) modify statutory provisions concerning to whom the Department of Public Health may release information concerning acknowledgment of parentage.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH CARE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION FACILITIES.

To (1) establish medical professional positions within the Office of the Correction Ombuds, (2) develop processes to ensure medications are administered as directed in Department of Correction facilities and other safeguards concerning health care provided to persons who are incarcerated, (3) reimburse student loans of persons working with the Department of Correction as nurses, (4) direct an audit of the nutrition and food services of the department, (5) require medical history be transmitted to the department as part of a presentencing report, (6) enhance training for correction officers, (7) establish the Correction Medical and Health Oversight Board, and (8) enact various other proposals supporting the health and well-being of incarcerated persons.

Judiciary Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING CONSUMER PRIVACY AND PROTECTION.

To (1) provide for the registration of data brokers, (2) require the Commissioner of Consumer Protection to establish an accessible deletion mechanism program, (3) require manufacturers to affix tariff cost estimates to new automobiles, (4) require disclosures regarding the use of personalized algorithmic pricing, (5) amend the Connecticut Data Privacy Act by (A) defining "facial recognition technology", (B) redefining "publicly available information", (C) eliminating the entity-level exemption for certain processing decisions concerning employment, (D) providing consumers with additional rights concerning certain profiling decisions, (E) prohibiting the sale, sharing, transfer or allowance of access to precise geolocation data, and (F) establishing new requirements concerning facial recognition technology, and (6) requiring certain state and municipal contracts to restrict the sale, sharing, transfer or allowance of access to automated license plate reader information.

General Law Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING ONLINE SAFETY.

To (1) establish (A) various requirements concerning artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence systems, artificial intelligence technologies, artificial intelligence companions and automated employment-related decision processes, (B) an Artificial Intelligence Policy Office to be overseen by an Artificial Intelligence Policy Director, (C) an Artificial Intelligence Learning Laboratory Program, (D) a Connecticut AI Academy and require various state agencies to disseminate information concerning said academy, (E) an artificial intelligence working group, and (F) a Connecticut Technology Advisory Board; (2) require (A) subscription-based artificial intelligence providers to make consumer disclosures, (B) frontier developers to implement various internal processes concerning frontier models, (C) synthetic digital content to be detectable as synthetic digital content, (D) the Department of Economic and Community Development to develop and implement a program to bolster artificial intelligence cooperation, (E) the Labor Commissioner to establish an Artificial Intelligence Workforce Research Hub, (F) the Office of Workforce Strategy to develop, implement and promote programs to improve the skills of the state's workforce in relation to artificial intelligence and a plan to create technologist apprenticeships, (G) the Office of Health Strategy to create a program to use artificial intelligence systems to enhance health outcomes for state residents, and (H) the Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner and Commissioner of Consumer Protection to accept applications for safe harbor programs; (3) provide (A) that certain uses of an automated employment-related decision process constitute an unlawful discriminatory practice, (B) that no artificial intelligence technology shall be used to modify or impair a collective bargaining agreement or the role of a designated employee organization, (C) for the designation of artificial intelligence fellows, and (D) for the inclusion of instruction in topics such as the responsible use of emerging technologies in teacher certification preparation programs; and (4) modify (A) the "computer science education and workforce development account", (B) the Technology Talent and Innovation Fund Advisory Committee, and (C) the economic development strategic plan.

General Law Committee

AN ACT SUPPORTING COMMUTERS AND MICROTRANSIT SERVICES AND CONCERNING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.

To provide funding for on-demand microtransit services in the state.

Transportation Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

To (1) require the Secretary of the State to publish a manual concerning the duties of justices of the peace, (2) prohibit misconduct by justices of the peace, (3) specify that a newly created office of justice of the peace may be filled by appointment prior to the next regular election, (4) require a forty-eight hour waiting period before the issuance of a marriage license, and (5) establish a working group concerning justices of the peace.

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING VARIOUS REVISIONS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH STATUTES.

To make various revisions to the public health statutes.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION SERVICES' RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING ACCESS TO OPIOID OVERDOSE REVERSAL MEDICATION AND VARIOUS REVISIONS TO MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION STATUTES.

To remove barriers to access opioid antagonists.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH'S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING SUBSURFACE SEWAGE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, WATER OPERATOR APPRENTICES AND VARIOUS REVISIONS TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND DRINKING WATER STATUTES.

To implement the Department of Public Health's recommendations regarding various revisions to the environmental health and drinking water statutes, including statutes relating to bottled water, environmental laboratories and asbestos abatement.

Public Health Committee

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF STATE ETHICS FOR REVISIONS TO THE STATE CODES OF ETHICS, REDEFINING "GIFT" FOR PURPOSES OF SAID CODES AND INCREASING VARIOUS MONETARY THRESHOLDS IN SAID CODES.

To (1) amend the quorum requirements of the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board, (2) prohibit nepotism by public officials or state employees, (3) permit the filing of the name of certain tax-sheltered annuity retirement plans in lieu of naming specific securities within such statements, (4) apply substantial conflict of interest provisions in the state code of ethics for public officials and state employees to conflicts involving the public official's or state employee's nonstate employer or spouse's nonstate employer, and (5) increase various monetary thresholds in the state codes of ethics.

Government Administration and Elections Committee

AN ACT IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND CONCERNING VEGETATION MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES, TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES AND RIDER SAFETY, TRAFFIC SIGNAL MODERNIZATION GRANT PROGRAM, ENCAMPMENTS, MARINE PILOT LICENSE FEES, MOTOR VEHICLE MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT, DISTRACTED DRIVING, A TASK FORCE TO STUDY ACCESS TO PARKING FOR HOME HEALTH AGENCIES AND A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY USE OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN SCHOOL BUS FLEETS.

To implement the recommendations of the Department of Transportation concerning (1) infrastructure and service connections located in the state's right-of-way, (2) diesel-fueled transit buses, (3) electric vehicle parking at state agencies, (4) the Port Eastside Infrastructure Improvement District, (5) dynamic part-time lanes and control systems, (6) the restricted use of highways during extreme weather conditions, and (7) the memorial naming of a certain bridge.

Transportation Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING OVERSIGHT OF EFFORTS TO PREVENT HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND THE USE OF CONFIDENTIAL CRISIS HOTLINES AT CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

To establish a Human Trafficking Prevention Coordinator, add additional members to the Trafficking in Persons Council, require all employees of the Department of Children and Families and the Court Support Services Division to undergo training regarding human trafficking, require the Commissioner of Children and Families to assess the security of placement locations, require the Child Advocate to submit an annual report, establish a temporary task force and make various duties of the Department of Children and Families concerning trafficking mandatory.

Government Oversight Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING ASSORTED MEASURES RECOGNIZING AND HONORING THE HEROISM OF VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND MAKING VARIOUS REVISIONS TO STATUTES RELATED TO VETERANS' AND MILITARY AFFAIRS.

To make minor and technical revisions to a statute concerning ribbons and medals awarded to certain veterans and armed forces reservists with wartime service.

Veterans' and Military Affairs Committee